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boards Project) propulsion drive) - Irradiated food headbands) systems For each of the items on my list, General Trudeau went into his human resources file and found the names of scientists working on government defense projects or in allied research projects at universities where | could turn for advice and some consultation. | wasn't surprised to see Wernher von Braun turn up under every rocket propulsion issue. von Braun had gone on record in1959 by announcing that the U.S. military had acquired a new technology as a result of top secret research in unidentified flying objects. Nor was | surprised to sec John von Neumann's name next to the mention of the strange looking silver imprinted silicon wafers that | thought looked like elliptical shaped crackers. "If these are what | think they might be, " General Trudeau said, "printed circuitry, there's only one person we can talk to. " Dr. Robert Sarbacher was an especially important contact person on our list of scientists because he had worked on the Research and Development Board during the Eisenhower administration. Not only had Sarbacher been consulted by members of Admiral Hillenkoetter's and General Vandenberg's working group on UFOs during the 1950s, he was part of the original decision General Twining made to bring all of the Roswell debris back to Wright Field for preliminary examination before farming it out to the military research community. As early as 1950, Sarbacher, commenting on the nature of the debris, said that he was sure the light and tough materials were being analyzed very carefully by government laboratories that had taken possession of the debris after the crash. Because he was already knowledgeable about the Roswell debris, Dr. Sarbacher was another obvious candidate for an Army R&D brain trust. We also listed Dr. Wilbert Smith, who, in a memo to the controller of telecommunications in November 1950, had urged the government of Canada to investigate the nature of alien technology the United States had retrieved from crashed extraterrestrial vehicles and that was at that time being studied by Vannevar Bush. Dr. Smith, who had learned of the U.S. investigation from Sarbacher, said that regardless whether UFOs fit into our belief system or not, the fact was we had acquired them and it was important for us to harvest the technology they contained. He implored the government to make a substantial effort to utilize alien technology. General Trudeau joked that although Dr. Smith knew that we had acquired technology at Roswell, he didn't really know what it was. "| can't wait to see his face when you open your briefcase in front of him, Phil, " the general said, thinking about how his old friend had always wanted to know the specifics of what he had secreted away in 1947. Each of these scientists had maintained existing relationships with any number of defense contractors during the 1950s. General Trudeau also had relationships with the army contractors who were developing new weapons systems for the military within one part of the company while another part was harvesting some of the same technology for consumer products development. These were companies -- Bell Labs, IBM, Monsanto, Dow, General Electric, and Hughes - that General Trudeau wanted to talk to about the list of technological products that we'd compiled from our R&D Roswell nut file. "You begin calling our scientist friends, "General Trudeau announced. "And make whatever appointments you want." 50 - Integrated circuits - Microminiaturization of logic - HARP (High Altitude Research - Project Horizon (moon base) - Portable atomic generators (ion - Third brain guidance systems (EBE - Particle beams ("Star Wars" antimissile energy weapons) - Electromagnetic propulsion - Depleted uranium projectiles